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First of all , Ash seems younger now , still at age 10 , he also seem to have lost all of his experience :/ he couldn't even win from Tripp's Snivy with his LVL 100 Pikachu :s ! Also I don't like the new vibe around Team Rocket :s They became so serious and don't even say ''We're blasting off again" anymore :'( stupid... And now Brock is gone ... :/ and everything about the Sinnoh League seem to be forgotten :/ Didn't happen that severely in the beginning of Sinnoh League... Also the Iris character is so ... :/ uuh stupid kinda repetitive too.. "You're such a kid" :/ also nothing special here like pokemon contests which where COOOOL :s ! well thats my opinion ... What's yours ?!

And here we go again.....

We will never know what level Pikachu is. And Team Rocket being serious and being less on screen is the best thing that has ever happened on this show. Unlike before when Team Rocket used to be doing nothing in certain episodes, I found it very unecessary. I don't have a problem with Trip. I do have a problem with the the writers making him the only rookie in this saga. Is that really his fault?

That post you're replying to is a year and two months old, Caseydia. It isn't likely that you're going to have a discussion with that user. Aslo, Stephan and Bianca are both rookies.

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About the episode, it was great. I'll admit, Worst Wishes started out very well. Too bad after Castelia City or so, the episodes and writing started to get worse and worse. My only problem is the fact that Zekrom appeared only to blast Team Rocket and Pikachu and do nothing else. That just doesn't make sense. Also writers, if you want to reset Pikachu, you can do so without making him suffer some dumb injury in the first episode of every series.

BW actually started off really well, almost like the series had a rebirth. The voice acting finally became tolerable for a while (then it went back to subpar in Season 15 IMHO, sadly) and Ash's VA went up drastically with the start of this episode in BW (she, unlike the others, seems to be getting better at the role at long last though it's obvious she's imitating Taylor poorly). Sadly the VA work for James and Meowth starts getting worse for Cathcart as of this episode. He cannot pull off James being serious (and people make fun of Eric...I can't take Zoppi seriously for a minute in this role...but he's so bad at being serious it's funny so I give him points for that), nor make Meowth serious but lovable at the same time. Natochenny starts off well here as Ash, actually, but her Delia is still just awful for the dub. Professor Oak's VA is the same as BF quality just like Delia is.
It's a good start to a saga I actually thought was going to be super awesome, but it does disappoint. Not bad though, of course.

Sub: 90/100
Dub: 70/100 (+5 for Ash's VA improvement, -5 for her Delia not improving, -20 for James and Meowth's VA's deprovement, and his Oak remaining stagnant)

That post you're replying to is a year and two months old, Caseydia. It isn't likely that you're going to have a discussion with that user. Aslo, Stephan and Bianca are both rookies.

You never know whether the user might look in this thread section again. And yes Bianca and Stephan are rookis too. I know this. I just wish people wouldn't just belittle Trip only because of it when it's Ash that seems like he's the rookie.

You never know whether the user might look in this thread section again. And yes Bianca and Stephan are rookis too. I know this. I just wish people wouldn't just belittle Trip only because of it when it's Ash that seems like he's the rookie.

You never know whether the user might look in this thread section again. And yes Bianca and Stephan are rookis too. I know this. I just wish people wouldn't just belittle Trip only because of it when it's Ash that seems like he's the rookie.

Originally Posted by pokemonsquared

Virgil might be a quad region veteran.

Why are you guys mentioning characters who hadn't even debuted as off this episode?

This is the first episode of the Best Wishes series and the first episode of Ash's regression! I thought Ash was aged and matured throughout the AG saga and DP saga......this episode proved them wrong and announced that Ash's age is STILL 10! Ash's personality was in BW nothing like what his personality was in DP, instead he seemed to act even more childish(not in this episode, but the next episode)! It's sad that see Ash's Pikachu lost his electric powers and then lost to an inexperienced Snivy. Ash and Pikachu could do nothing to beat that Snivy because Pikachu lost his electrical abi.

I did like Ash's BW design and Professor Juniper's anime design, but still, this episode was Bad.

EDIT: I gotta say, TPCI did a great job by keeping all of the japanese music and bringing back "Who's That Pokémon!" in the english version of this episode. Seeing "Who's That Pokémon" after a long time was cool.

This series had so much potential at first. I was okay with Ash losing he was reckless with battling with Pikachu after that Zekrom thing happened. Trip and Snivy were cool, cooler then anyone else was in this episode.

Remember how good BW started off? To see where it is now in Da!...so sad.

Originally Posted by J Ken

This series had so much potential at first. I was okay with Ash losing he was reckless with battling with Pikachu after that Zekrom thing happened. Trip and Snivy were cool, cooler then anyone else was in this episode.

I don't care what anyone says: Trip was not Paul 2.0. He was awesome and a badass. Yet another victim of the writers.